Took a couple of days off to do things with friends, so instead of jumping straight back into ranked and just having to ban Kled, I decided to stick with normals and play some picks I don't normally use in ranked.



Shyvana - I wasn't heavily involved in the gank game because Shyvana. Also LeBlanc and Thresh can be hard lanes to gank for champions like Shyvana that can pretty much only gank by running at a target. I did focus some attention on Illaoi when I had Exhaust up.... Read More

Tried out Mordekaiser jungle. He clears suprisingly healthy and brings respectable damage to a gank. Pair him with some laners with some CC (not so much the ones in the game depicted above) and he can probably do pretty well.

I went

Enchantment: Runic Echoes
Mercury's Treads
Hextech Rocketbelt
Zhonya's Hourglass
Abyssal Mask
Trinity Force

And then sold the Protobelt for Randuin's Omen as Quinn had become a problem. The Protobelt is nice for picking... Read More

Apologies up front for meandering about a bit in this post. This was a sort of a stream of consciousness dump after playing a fair amount of ranked games with Warwick. He feels fairly strong at the moment and is fairly simple to use, which as I understand is a good combination if you want to climb.

Warwick is really good against high mobility targets as he has an ability that locks them down and holds them in place which negates their mobility. So if you see an enemy comp with lots of dashes/other forms of mobility then Warwick is often a good pick. He also does a disgusting... Read More

Got to play an NA Mobafire in-house this past weekend. First one. Yay groups for making that happen.

A bit of trash talking but overall the vibe was a good one. Appreciate the invite. :-)

Observations of the Silver Player amidst a hoard of Plat+ players. Yikes don't hurt me! Was my first thought.

2nd thought. Eh, I'll do my thing and if they want me to be doing something else, someone will probably tell me.

The more experienced players were doing the following....trying to make more... Read More

I originally posted this in the QQ forum, but I had a few additional thoughts about the mastery system that I wanted to explore a little more in-depth.

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